Unit unknown or none - A colour photo of John Kirkham (Bishop of Sherborne and Chaplain General to the Forces) together with Leslie Thomas (author) and Henry Buckton (late LI) outside The Wardrobe, The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire in 1995

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - A black and white photo of Private Bishop with a 0.5inch Browning Machine Gun, back in use again, at Mullan Bridge PV Checkpoint in Northern Ireland but the date is not known

1st Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photo of 'A' Company Athletics Team, winners of the 1929-30 Inter Company Athletics Shield. This photo is one of a collection of 14 of the Battalion found by a building contractor who was working on an unoccupied house in Aldershot and deposited by him at the Army Medical Museum there; three of the photos are named and the original owner, L/Corporal Greenaway, has been identified by his being the only common denominator to these three photos.

1st Bn, Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment - A photograph of Private Bishop with a .50 calibre Heavy Machine Gun at the Mullan Bridge permanent bridge vehicle check point (PVCP) in early 1991, near the border in Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. (the Battalion was the first to use this weapon to defeat a terrorist attack when the Gortmullan PVCP came under attack in April 1991)

4th/6th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photo taken at a Farewell Party for George HEARNE in the Sergeants Mess at Reading in 1961 showing (Left to Right) Sid WYATT, George HEARNE, Pete READER, Tommy BAYNHAM and Jeff BISHOP, all dressed as Tramps

4th/6th Bn, Royal Berkshire Regiment - A black and white photo of the Royal Berkshire Regiment detachment for the Queens Review of the Territorial Army in Hyde Park in 1958. The photo was actually taken at Plasterdown camp and shows Major WILLING (i/c Party), Captain PAXTON, Captain Shaw STEWART, Company Sergeant Major WHITEWICK, Sergeant CLARKE, Sergeant MAY BEM, L/Corporal DAY, Colour Sergeant RIXON, Company Sergeant Major BISHOP, Company Sergeant Major READER, Company Sergeant Major BAYNHAM, Corporal WINCHCOMBE, Corporal COURTNEY and Sergeant COOK.

1st Bn, Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment - A black and white photograph of "A" Company Headquarters staff taken on 27th April 1994 in Alma Barracks, Catterick, Yorkshire. The photograph was taken shortly after the amalgamation of the Gloucestershire Regiment (28th/61st) and the Duke of Edinburgh's Royal Regiment (49th, 62nd, 66th & 99th)

Research Enquiries

On 20th November...

...1915 the 1st Royal Berkshire war diary entry reads:

The RIR relieved "C" Company at 9.0a.m.
The 144th Brigade relieved the 145th 10.0a.m. onwards, the order of the relief being changed on account of the straffe of the 4th Division for 2.0p.m., the order being 5th GLOSTERS, OXFORDS, BUCKS, ROYAL BERKS. The...